Seminar series
Date
Mon, 16 Nov 2015
Time
15:00 -
16:00
Location
L2
Speaker
Tony Carbery
Organisation
University of Edinburgh
Leinster and Willerton have introduced the concept of the magnitude of a metric space, as a special case as that of an enriched category. It is a numerical invariant which is designed to capture the important geometric information about the space, but concrete examples of ts values on compact sets in euclidean space have hitherto been lacking. We discuss progress in some conjectures of Leinster and Willerton.